sunup

Example Sentences

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When I explained this to a Muslim friend, he replied that it “kinda sounds like diet Ramadan”—which demands that Muslims go without food or drink from sunup to sundown.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

Taking part while going without food and water from sunup to sundown made things harder.

From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2024

Coaches joke that Moore lives in the practice facility, in before sunup and out after sundown.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 21, 2023

I grew up on the blacktop — where we teens and preteens pounded basketballs from sunup till the lights at the park went dark.

From Salon • Apr. 28, 2023

“What a sanguine smell. What a purposeful fire. Breakfast in a tree. Son, I toil from sunup to sundown, and never have I lived so well!”

From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George